Soap sure has come a long way!
December 24, 2008 by Aly Walansky
Filed under Beauty, Skin Care, Tanning
Alas, we all know the dangers of UV now, too bad we didn’t know when we were sunbathing in baby oil with a double album covered in tin foil!
Nothing we can do about that now, but we can prevent further damage by using sunscreen every day and by applying nutrients.
The only problem for us is that after we shower and dry and preen, we really are in no state of mind to apply some industrial grade products.
This is why we love Bethesda Sunscreen Soap. You apply it when you wash in the shower…and you have just fed your skin with nutrients and given it an SFP 10 shield.
Not bad for just a simple shower.
Also not bad: I have two bars of Bethesda to give away! To win, tell me about the worst sun damage you’ve ever received! Deadline is Jan 15.
Photo credit: Bethesda Skincare
Before I knew better, I used baby oil on my skin, laid out in the sun,and fell asleep. When I woke up, my skin was red, blistered, and looked like I’d been boiled. It took a long, long time and lots of healing creams to make my skin better. I still bear splotchy skin on my chest from it.
Seriously I generally really good about sunscreen yearround, well we went on a cruise and went on deck and bought the all you could inhale liquor deal for 30 bucks while at the pool- needless to say- I thought it was not sunburn because I could not feel it- and yet I slathered it on, but being down in mexico and beyond sun can be really strong- oh well whoops- I was like rudolphs nose- my face was fine -just below the neck was all nice and bright..lucky I recovered without peeling too bad because of products but oh wow. never again will I do that.
The worst sun damage I’ve ever received was when I was 16 years old. I had third degree burns on my chest and could not walk for two days. Thanks for the giveaway!
I really need this soap, I just had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my face and have to be extra carefull in the sun now. I too grew up in the era of Baby Oil and iodine and even though for years now I’ve been religiously using sunscreen, I still got skin cancer.
Mine was the extreme blistering and peeling when I was in my teens that I thought was the best way to get a tan. I was so wrong and the pain was not worth tacklinig after that situation.
what an awesome product !!! when i was before age 12 or so, out swimming, no sunscreen, got big ole blisters on my shoulders!
I’m a nudist so you can imagine the places that can get burned that you have never dreamed about. This soap sounds like the answers to a lot of prayers because as a nudist there are a lot of places that you just don’t get sunscreen applied to. I have had second degree burns to places you don’t want me to tell on here. Please let me try your soap and this coming summer I can be a spokesperson for you!
fell asleep once while tanning out in the sun. got terrible second degree burns ALL OVER my entire body! i woke up after about 4 hours of sleeping on my back and rolled over onto my stomach for another 4. i looked like a LOBSTER!
i feel asleep on the beach once and suffered a painful terrible burn
I was also a roof top baby oil junkie. What really got me was the tanning beds though. I have darkened skin on all parts of my body now. I have a HUGE one on my forehead and it drives me crazy. My husband says he can’t see it, but I can.
I was 15 and had gone with my friend to stay with my grandmother in Florida. We wanted that tan. I burned so bad that the backs of my knees blistered. I had a hard time even sitting down. I was miserable.
18, skipped school and headed for the shore on a wonderful late spring day (grew up in JOI-zee, we go to da shore!). My mom would no more part with her Ban de Soleil than her head so we took BABY OIL in case the sun couldn’t find us lying prone on towels for 8 hours. I redefined red. I was more than red. I was glow in the dark. And it hurt. And I NEVER went back to the shore (or beach) without protection again. Merry Christmas!
I was maybe 12 years old, which was a long time ago…38 years ago to be exact. I went to the beach with my friend and her family…I didn’t know enough to keep reapplying sunscreen…I got so burnt…I actually slept for almost two days!
When I was 9 years old my family took a trip to Mexico. Back in those days sunscreen wasn’t even a thought. I got so badly burned that my entire back was covered in blisters and my lips were scabbed and raw. My lips still show scars from that burn that happened over 30 years ago. Now I religiously put sunscreen on myself and my kids every day. I’d love to try this sunscreen soap.
I am a subscriber.
One summer, I stayed too long under the sunlight and my scalp was burnt:( It blistered and itched very much:(
The first time I ever went to the nude beach I burnt my privates and backside. OUCH!!
i used to get burnt bad being at the pool all day, no one incident stands out worse than others.. just lots of red painful sun burnt days, i’ve had skin cancer twice because of it
Back when I was in college, I was staying the the Jersey shore for a week with friends. I did use sunscreen but apparently the number and amount I applied were not enough for my big honker of a nose….lol. It ended up getting so bunt that it crusted over. Talk about painful and ugly. I learned my lesson well that day.
The worst was when I burned my legs at the beach. It hurt to walk! Our hotel room wasn’t too far from the beach but that definitely made the trip hard!
I’m very fair – was constantly mocked by my baby oiled friends for using Total Blockout SPF 8 as a kid…..still remember a horrible shoulder burn when I was about 10…..
Sunscreen soap is a great idea.
I can remember getting some horrible burns as a kid. My grandma had a pool and we were always in it. Peeling was something that happened at least once a Summer. Sounds horrible now, but it was just another Summer day back then.
What a neat idea. In high school, I fell asleep at the beach and boy was I a lobster when I woke up.
What an awesome product! I had a very bad sunburn when I was about 10 and we were visiting my grandmother in Florida….I can still remember how horribly it stung!
The worst sun damage I ever got was when I was 15 years old and I worked in the Cantaloupe fields picking cantaloupes. I got Sun poison and couldn’t move for days.
i had lived in hawaii for 4 years and always in sun and then went i went to florida a year after living in louisiana i burned so bad being in sun i had to go to dr when i got back from vacation. i would love to try your product.thank you so muc.
I’m freckled and fair, my 1st year as a lifeguard at an outdoor pool.. I burned so bad so regularily my nickname was frybaby. I didnt know any better and I’d burn so bad I would blister, then wear a shirt til the blisters healed, then when the shirt was off blister again (I was ramping up the sunscreen since I wanted a tan, but didnt know how low I could go… in retrospect, I should have started at the top & worked my way down =)
eventually I discovered the right spf to get my freckles to merge together & was the tannest person at the pool… for the last week we were open…
I burnt myself at a waterpark so badly I had blisters all over my back! It sucked.
Being a newbie to tanning is horrible, I hate my farmers tan!
Great Product.
I fell alseep in the sun and boy did I get a burn
We went to an air show and got a really good view. Of course, that meant that we were right off the asphalt runway and it was windy and sunny. I had on sunglasses. I looked like a lobster colored raccoon when I took them off.
I made the mistake of going to a water park when I was 12, and not putting on sunscreen once all day. I came home with blisters on my back because the sunburn was so bad! I couldn’t wear clothes for days and had to lay down on my stomach all day.
As a pre-teen and in my early teens, I lived only two blocks away from our small town’s city swimming pool. Every summer, my parent’s bought season’s passes so that my brother and I could go swimming whenever we wanted. I am a very fair-skinned natural blonde, so the combination of sun reflecting off the water and concrete always left me looking like a lobster! I would stay at the pool, all day, everyday, all summer long; no sunscreen or even suntan lotion. I never used any kind of cover-up. This was in the sixties and we had no idea how dangerous this sort of sun exposure could be! The worst, or so we thought at the time, that could happen was that I would get a terrible, painful burn. I would often get huge blisters that would almost completely cover my face, shoulders and most of my body. I spent a lot of time at the doctor’s office being treated for sun poisoning, but did it teach me anything? NO! As soon as the burn healed and I was no longer in pain, I was back at the pool! This cycle went on for years, until, in my mid-teens, I started wearing makeup and doing my hair; then, I gave up the pool because I didn’t like for anyone to see me unless I looked “perfect”. After I broke the “pool” habit, I started avoiding the sun simpley because it made me sweaty and made my makeup run. No more sun-connected problems until I was 28 and had just had my third chid. At my six-week’s post-natal exam, my gynocologist noticed a large black mole on my upper inner thigh. I told her that it had been there for about three years but was much larger than it used to be. I hadn’t really paid much attention to it because I have a lot of moles all over my body. She biopsied it and it turned out to be malignant melanoma! I was fortunate that she was suspicious enough to check it out. The surgery to remove it left a huge scar in my thigh but better that than the alternative! I have had many other moles removed over the years since-many pre-cancerous-but thankfully, have had no more melanoma. I now use sunscreen on a daily basis, but still avoid the sun like the plague. I know that my parents did not know any better; they just wanted us to have fun, get plenty of excercise, and be healthy. My own kids loved to swim but I was always making sure that they were following all the sun-safety rules. I also have a yearly mole-screening with a dermatologist.
Lets just say, Mexico + Pool + Alcohol – Sunscreen = No Fun
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I have hyper-pigmentation spots on my cheeks and can’t stand them!
In florida I went on a boat and forgot my sunscreen needless to being out inthe ocean for about 8hours I had blisters I couldnt even brush my hair my head was burnt Im ared head with freckles so you know what looked like eek!!!
mine waw when I was also on an atibiotic and got a terrible burn
Unfortunately, I’ve had my fair share of burns. I am a fair skinned woman, born and raised in southern California. I did have one summer in particular as a pre teen where I burned my face so badly that my nose actually scabbed. Ew…sorry for the details, but it is scarred into my head and thankfully not on my face, though the physical scar of that summer did last quite some time. I’ve mostly learned my lesson. Anytime I am going to be outdoors for an extended period of time, I slather on thick sunscreen. As far as my day to day routine, I would say I use a moisturizer with sunscreen abotu 50% of the time. I’d love to try an interesting product like this! I wonder how it’d work on kids like mine reluctant to apply sunscreen?
I went shore fishing with my boyfriend for the 1st time. While we were fishing by the river, there was no sun out at all, and it was barely warm outside, so did not even THINK about getting burned. Later in the afternoon, he noticed that I was a little pink, and when I checked it out, it seems a was ALOT pink — like a lobster. (Because of the cloudy day, it was hard to tell). I went into the tent, and he used an old remedy of vinegar and water. After that, I got the chills so bad, I thought my teeth would fall out. He had me covered up with many quilts and the temperature in the tent was oppressive, but I still froze. It took quite awhile before my skin healed from that experience.
In my youth there was not such thing as “sun-screen”. First time ever in an outdoor swimming pool I stayed way too long (in noontime sun, of all times). Ended up being the only teenager in my class (and, in fact, in the entire community!) with a nose so burned it was not only Rudolph-red but had skin actually split down the middle and peeled off each side like a banana!
I had the worst sun burn ever! I was 17 and determined to tan. I am very fair complected and have freckles,,,baby oil and 6 hours in the hot sun on the beach equals the worst sunburn ever. After the burn healed I my skin peeled and I never did tan. Sunscreen ever since for me.
My nose blistered when I was a teenager on a family vacation in the Caribbean. I remember thinking that I “melted” my nose. Ugh, I dread finding out how damaging that was… This soap is a great idea! Thanks for a great contest!
When I was due to have my 3 son around 4th of July, everybody talked me into wearing shorts while on the sand beach. When I had him on the 7th the nurses thougt they had left the heat lamp on way to long. Please enter me, thank you
when I was in high school, one of my friends bought a sun lamp. I borrowed it and didn’t know that you were supposed to only use it for short periods of time. I really wanted a tan…badly! Well, that was the sunburn of the century! The thing I remember was burning the back of my legs so much that I could not get up the steps to the school bus! I had to get a ride from my father for about a week!
When I was younger, maybe 19 or so, my sister got married, and I was in the wedding. I am very fair, and know that I burn easily. However, everyone else was going to the tanning bed, so I figured why not. I went the Thursday before the wedding and laid in the bed for 20 minutes. The following day, I did the same. The day of the wedding, Saturday, I woke up & found out I couldn’t even move. I sat through hair & makeup with a bucket next to me, continuously trying to fight off waves of nausea – not so successfully.
I powered through, (barely) made it through the wedding – you can see my swaying in the video – and got to the reception. I couldn’t even take wedding pictures because I was so sick. I couldn’t walk and had burns unlike anything I have ever seen. At this point I couldn’t even keep down small sips of water. I laid in the bathroom the entire wedding, until eventually my dad carried me out and took me back to our hotel.
The next day, I had to have someone else drive my car the 4 hour drive home.
In high school, we went on a class field trip to an amusement park and I didn’t bring any sunscreen. By the end of the day, I started to feel sick (and not from the rides) and my face was bright red. Good thing it was the last day of school before summer break!
We had a yard sale, an all day yard sale. It was a warm overcast day. I wore a sleeveless v neck shirt. No direct hot burning sun. Overcast day, i have a dark complexion and didn’t think I needed any sunscreen. I recieved 2nd degree sunburns to my chest, and shoulders. The only reason my face was spared was dure to sunscreen in my make up (which until that day I hadn’t realized it had any in it). I have been a sunscreen user every since. Thanks for the contest
Back in the 80s, I went fishing in shorts & tank top with a bunch of other kids… by the end of the day, I was totally cooked!
My worst sun damage occured in 2005. We live on the Texas gulf coast and had to evacuate for Hurricane Rita. We spent 26 hours in our truck most of it in the hot Texas sun. By the next morning when we got to where we were going I had blisters all over one of my chins one blisters was huge. It took months to heal and I still have scars on my leg from it. Even though I had pants on doc said it was a burn caused from the UV rays going thru them. I was so miserable.